core 2 duo

I installed W7 Pro a few days ago and had no known trouble with the clean install. It was an upgrade for XP Pro. I built my pc a few months ago and haven't had any problems with it. Main components are Core 2 Duo E8400, Gigabyte P45 motherboard, $ g's RAM, Western Digital Caviar Black 1 Tb. hard...

Ok, so I have ACPI 2.0 installed, and I have all the settings in the "Power Options" that allow a timed hibernate, disabled. However, when I leave the PC on it will hybrid sleep after a few hours and then when I try to resume, it instantly turns on (like its supposed to) but then, after about a...

"Unidentified Network" problem, no solutions working -- EDIT: Problem solved The "unidentified network" problem seems to be fairly widespread. In my case, I just upgraded my computer from 32-bit XP to 64-bit 7 via custom install of a Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade Pack. Some basic details of...

The problem I am having is the system will go into S3 sleep but it will not come back up. It reboots the system upon wake up and I get a (How do you want Windows to start?" window. S1 sleep seems to work fine. I have adjusted the network card power management and set all the power management...

Problem: My computer fails to go into Sleep mode, and it also will automatically restart about 1-2 seconds after shutting down. This issue initially arose when I had the RC installed. During that time, I had been able to Sleep the computer just fine, but one time it seemed to randomly fail...

Hi all, i have just purchase windows 7 today. i am intending to do a clean install and so i did a boot up from the cd/dvd option with the DVD. i manage to get to the first blue sky wallpaper everytime. From then on, it will freeze randomly each time with a different timing. The loading is...

Hi, I'm using Windows 7 RTM for two months or so. I have a recurring problem: While surfing the web after sometime, either with IE 8 or FF3.5, the browser stops responding and I have to close it and reopen in order to surf again, and then its stops responding more often, so I have to restart...

My computer: CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Motherboard: P5KR VGA: 8800GT 512MB RAM: 6GB DDR2 1) When I play some game, somethimes I don't hear my friends talking at ventrilo and after lag I hear everything what they said during a minute... I tryed to change priority of ventrilo to...

Hello. I just replaced my E5200 dual core (2.5GHz) with a C2Duo E6420 (2.13GHz). My WEI dropped from 6.0 to 5.4 for the CPU, and from 6.0 to 5.3 for the RAM (4GB). I was under the impression that the core 2 duo was superior to the dual core. Am I wrong?

Last night after all the troubles with getting W7 Pro 64bit installed, I finally managed to do it using a USB. This morning I start installing all my programs and I noticed that my "Windows Experience" number was 1.0 (it had formerly been 5.0). I assumed this was down to it not recognising my...

I am getting ready to do a fresh install of Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit. It is on an HP DV2200, running Vista Home Premium with an Itel Core2 CPU T5200 @1.60GHz processor. And it has the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200 GPU. I ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and it informed me that Windows Aero...

I am currently running Vista 32-bit on my laptop. I pretty much know what the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit is, but I don't understand the technical aspect as well. I followed Microsoft's lead to find out whether my computer is 64-bit capable or not, but upon following the instructions...

There is a PROBLEM with the ADOBE, NVIDIA, OPENGL, WINDOWS7 driver. If you open a gray scale picture in Windows7 Photoshop, it will appear to be purple. I tried GeForce drivers 182, 185, 190, and MicroSoft Win7 reference drivers. I have also tried color profiles, sRGB, AdobeRGB 1998, Acer...

ok, i have gone through all the threads and tried just about everything but am still having problems. first i could not get past the first screen that has the blue wallpaper. then i disabled all non essentials in the bios which allowed me to get a bit further. however everytime i try it freezes...

I'm currently running XP Pro on partition C, with my XP programs on D, data on E and I use F for video editing files. On H (G is my DVD drive) I am running Windows 7 Evaluation copy, build 7100. I have ordered 7 and will receive it in about 3 weeks. I understand that I would need to do a clean...

I ran Windows Upgrade Advisor Beta, and passed all 4 system requirements, but it said that I needed to update my graphics card driver. I have a Nvidia Geforce 8700M GT (512 MB). I upgraded to the latest driver, but the advisor says that it still is not compatible with Windows 7! I'm pretty...

Hey, i'm new here... so Hi all! and here goes... I've been running windows 7 (beta) for a few weeks now, and ever since it's been installed, the system will experience random Lags... it's not really a crash, or a full on freeze... an example of what happens... I could be on msn.. and i...

i installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit on my ASUS P5KPL-CM with 4 gb of ram,Intel Core 2Duo 2.66 GHz & pci-e NVIDIA 8400 GS with latest NVIDIA drivers 190.62 but when i set my resolution below 1280x1024 black border appears on my screen and it never goes in full screen until i set my resolusion...

Hello everyone, im currently running vista 32bit business edition, i have a copy of windows 7 ultimate edition 64bit. i tried to install it but went from windows loading files screen to starting windows screen(black background with windows logo and "Starting windows" on the bottom) where it...

Hi, I recently saw the offer to get Home Premium for $30 if you're with a University (have a .edu email address). I looked up the wiki page for W7 editions and it has a comparison chart, and it says that Home Premium supports a maximum of 1 CPU chip. My processor is Intel Core 2 Duo. So does...